read

Meaning

Verb

1. (intransitive, transitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
2. (ergative, intransitive, transitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
3. (intransitive, metonymically, transitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
4. (intransitive, transitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
5. (transitive) To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
6. To consist of certain text.
7. (ergative) To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.
8. (broadly, ergative, humorous, imperative, ironic, usually) To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.
9. (transitive) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
10. (transitive) To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
11. (Commonwealth, transitive) To study (a subject) at a high level, especially at university.
12. (transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
13. (transitive) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
14. To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in a playful, taunting, or insulting way.
15. To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
16. (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
17. (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
18. (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.

Noun

1. A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
2. (in-compounds) Something to be read; a written work.
3. A person's interpretation or impression of something.
4. An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
5. The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string.

Synonyms

study

learn

interpret

peruse

understand

count

🔢

see

👀

reading

recite

take

chant

watch

⌚

comprehend

say

🗣️

examine

look

translate

construe

read out

catch

show

record

make out

inspect

hear

decipher

get

look at

compass

🧭

say prayers

sense

call

explain

teach

register

review

predict

look into

apprehend

know

indicate

pray

🛐

find

🔍

expound

calculate

rede

go

scan

attained

charge

Translations

lire

📖

leer

📖

leggere

📖

lesen

📖

llegir

📖

ler

📖

lezen

📖

διαβάζω

legere

قرأ

📖

okumak

📖

xwendin

📖

xwandin

legir

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹiːd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: reden

Inherited from Old English: rǣdan

Cognate with Scots: rede

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: räide

Cognate with Western Frisian: riede

Cognate with Dutch: raden

Cognate with German: raten

Cognate with Danish: råde

Cognate with Swedish: råda

Cognate with Persian: رده

Inherited from Middle English: redde

Inherited from Old English: rǣdde

In summary

From Middle English reden, from Old English rǣdan (“to counsel, advise, consult; interpret, read”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādan, from Proto-Germanic *rēdaną (“advise, counsel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- (“to arrange”).
Cognate with Scots rede, red (“to advise, counsel, decipher, read”), Saterland Frisian räide (“to advise, counsel”), West Frisian riede (“to advise, counsel”), Dutch raden (“to advise; guess”), German raten (“to advise; guess”), Danish råde (“to advise”), Swedish råda (“to advise, counsel”), Persian رده (rade, “to order, to arrange, class”). In West Germanic the verb had a sense “interpret”, which developed further into “interpret letters” in English and “interpret by intuition, guess” on the continent. Compare rede.

Sentences

" How did you learn to read ?" the girl asked at one point .

The old man knew how to read , and had already read the book .

Please read my proposal for the future direction of the business .

" And you ought to read more about the world ," answered the Englishman .